As part of his residence writer supported by the Region Ile-de-France , bookstore, Pierre Menard decided to put up with the support of Melico, memory of bookstore contemporary a sound work on reading , a series of interviews with authors, booksellers, librarians, publishers, journalists, teachers, children, poets, bloggers and readers more generally, followed by reading a page 48 of their favorite book.
books that are purchased in bookstores, those we borrow from our friends or in a library, what we read, what kind of books and where, where, in what position, what is read for yourself and for others, memories of his first book, his book always, those who do not leave us and how we imagine reading into the future.
The first episode was dedicated to Mary and me. Pierre
we asked, for example him briefly tell the story of a book that you had marked. That's what I told him
A day of Ivan Desnissovitch , Solzhenitsyn. It is a story that struck me, that I often put in parallel with life. This is the story of a man who is in the Gulag, Siberia, in terrible housing conditions, and dying of hunger and cold, and therefore he still fight for its survival, and for a small piece of cloth, a little heat and a piece of bread. It goes back to key moments of life basics like shelter from the cold, eating, living, fighting against the elements, and distress. It's a terrible life. A waste of time. It is to the Gulag for thirty years and when we complained of minor injuries, small misfortunes, I often think of this book, this story.
And that's what Mary told him:
There are so many ... For example, I love the book by Siri Hustvedt is an author I had not spotted his first books and I read a book that I found it at the time brilliant, I do not know why bright, why that word comes to my idea, but I found it brilliant . It tells the story of two New York intellectual families, friends and families. It was a very special time for me, very difficult, I do not want to talk there. It was very important for me to just get away from what was difficult. This book took a very important dimension, I went in there completely. I still have a lot of things. And the history of these two families, she manages to deal of all that, I think, is interesting in the literature to people is to say of course the couple, writing, painting, Svir Husveldt she did a lot of tests on the painting, she also wrote about the work of writing, there is everything to me inside. What I can not find much in the literature, what is perhaps among the authors Russians. And madness, and children, love, there is everything to me was everything, yet it is cold enough writing, it is cold enough. It is a book that I am often, I like good advice, it is a woman who does not know much, much more now, because it Paul Auster's wife. I think it's an important book, and I like to share one or two people who found it difficult, I usually rather good returns.
The sound piece of the first issue and our entire interview were broadcast last month on the site Melico, memory of bookstore contemporary .
This month, a new episode, this time, Claude Royet-Journoud who read page 48 of • Place, Mary-Louise Chapel, published in 2006 at Theatre Typographique.
To discover on the site Melico, memory of bookstore contemporary .
